Life and conditions in Scottish prisons from earliest times to the present
In early and mediaeval times in Scotland there was no imprisonment in the modern sense. Prison was mainly custodial, where the wrongdoer was housed until claimed by execution, banishment, punishment by mutilation or public humiliation. The object of authority usually was to get rid of the wrongdoer...
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University of Edinburgh
1978
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